Hi all - Dawn I will be very excited for your meet!

It would appear that I am taking an unscheduled break from the gym for this week and next.

We got asked to leave our childcare on Monday because my husband is "agressive" and everyone is scared of him. RUBBISH. We questioned why our key worker (the one that is basically in charge of your child and should be like a sister really) was being changed for the 3rd time in 7 months and they did not like that.

So STRESS trying to find a new nursery that isn't full (impossible) on a month's notice.

We actually found one, that my husband even gets a discount on, but it is kind of a pain for me to get to if he isn't working in that office (he doesn't work in that office very often), he's going to try to sort it out with his boss so he can be based there, but if that fails I'll have an interesting journey each morning and evening!

Because of this I'm off from work next week so we can do settling in sessions with the new nursery, and she'll start there the week starting the 29th (the day after her 1st birthday).

Barely eaten this week with the stress and I could go to the gym today, but I think I'm going to go to a salon for a colour consultation (my hair is dyed red right now, but I kind of want to give blonde a go).

Will try to keep up while I'm a temporary stay at home mum, but I'll be back properly on the 29th!

Have a good week ladies

Kim - thanks. It was a nice day. Today not so bad either.

Stephie - Good luck. Quite the stress situation right there. I hope it all works out.

Julie - Awesome job! I'm thinking that I'll do WHT on deadlift day since the bar will be on the ground anyways. And late night Sunday is better for that cause no other people there.

Went to basic hatha this evening after spending most of the day not getting anything productive done online. It went okay though ended up a bit lopsided in when I could hold the poses long enough. Right foot had issues with the toes cramping. I have that issue sometimes when I'm on my knees on the ground sitting and try to have tops of feet flat against the ground as my foot and/or toes will cramp. Am signed up for a workshop since I happened to have Saturday off, which is rare. Will get to learn about everything instead of just trying to follow along. Should be helpful.

Afterwards, went to gym for lower body workout. Some people this time for most of it and I even had to share the squat rack. I used it first for squats then let him use it to do his squats while I did a couple of things elsewhere. Then he was nice and let me have it back for sumo deadlift while he used dumbbells for OHP instead of the bar. Nice guy who I guess lifts 6 days a week but a little earlier than my late sessions.


Chapter 1: Squats

warm up sets 2x8 @ 45, 1x8 @ 95 and 1x6 @ 115
squat 4x5 @ 140
overload @ 210 - first time trying this. One set at 15 seconds of standing at the ready position with safeties nice and high, just in case.
pause squats 2x6 @ 80 - holy pause squats batman, that was a challenge. Did counts to 8 per rep and it was hard figuring out the breathing during

good morning 4x12 @ 60 - used fixed weight so much lighter since had to clean is from the floor.
hanging abs 3x8 bodyweight between good morning sets

leg extension 3x10 @ 100 - was waiting for power cage

sumo deadlift 1x5 @ 135 and 3x5 @ 175

Interesting session with the squats. The overload is interesting because the idea is just to stand there with the weight to get used to the feeling of it. So, they are going to go over my goal by a fair amount but at the start the PR should then feel manageable. The sites I saw recommended spotters but I don't lift with people so high safety bars are definitely going to be in place. Pause was interesting though didn't know how long to stay at bottom position for or if I needed to hold breath the whole time cause that was a bit hard to do. Saturday will be bench press day.

Hope the meds kick in quickly, beeps.

Did my first run of 100 after lifting today. Was tough as I'm not used to it, but I did it. Just got to do it for another 99 consecutive days, now!! 2 miles may not sound a lot, but 2 miles every day....eek!

It will be a mega challenge for me, but also interesting to see if I actually lose any lbs in the process, or whether my lifting progress stalls etc.

It's a "run to remember" challenge that local police forces are doing for fallen colleagues. A police officer friend who I used to run with roped me in.

I'm not really a beginner.... Have done 4 full marathons and countless half marathons over the last 25 years. Since my knee op, 3 years ago though I have done maybe 3 or 4 runs of no more than 20 mins. I keep talking about wanting to get back into it so I think this is my friend's way of saying "put up or shut up" without tempting me with another marathon!!!

Just dropping by to say hello to everyone!

I finished my 1st time through the book last November. After a winter of not really following a new program, bought Strong Curves, but couldn't get into it, and eating like crap on vacation for a few months, I've gained a lot of weight and feeling pretty weak so I'm going to restart NROL4W and work through all the programs again.

Hopefully this time will be a little easier, now I own a adjustable step, and I'd like to try to add the cardio intervals in. Before I would always skip them since I was running every other day.

I have a lot of catching up to do, but thought I would share this link from Eat to Perform about repairing your metabolism.
http://www.eattoperform.com/2016/02/21/killing-the-diet-industry-how-to-destroy-your-metabolism/

manic4titans wrote: »

Hey ladies. I am finally weight bearing on the leg but still on restrictions such as: hip flexion and any type of leg lifting. I am looking at another 5 weeks of therapy.

You will be strong enough to begin lifting soon Mary! Glad you're improving. Do what they say!!!

7year - I did/do my deficit deadlifts from a step, but the rest is like a standard DL. The difference is that I have to reach deeper than with standard DLs. My weight is slightly lower - well now, it would be a good deal lower, since my back has been achy lately.

Glad to see everyone lifting and getting it done. Mary, better to heal right than to heal fast. Best of luck to you.

I got back into the gym for the first time today after a week off with an upper respiratory infection. The sinus pressure was so bad I was taking Advil and my face felt like it was hit with a 2x4. I did stage 1 b4. I did all three sets and had a very hard time breathing. It took and hour to do with long rests and a skipped out on intervals. I have since spent the rest of the day in a state of exhaustion.

I'm hoping to rest tomorrow and go back Tuesday or Wednesday.

am pleased to report a slight shift in the scales this morning, both for lbs and bf%. Not much, but in the right direction!!

Went for my 2 mile run this morning - that's 3 days done out of the 100 for the challenge I'm doing, so still very early days, but three days in succession is equal to the total I've done over the last 12 months (or more!) so really, I am actually very proud of myself. Just got to keep it up!

Heading to the gym after work with hubby